The lack of a proper post on the Preserve yesterday can be hopefully explained by my attendance of the 'Big 4' show in NYC. This gig brought together Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer for an 8 hour extravaganza of music, in the new Yankee stadium. I shot a few videos of the proceedings, though most of my Megadeth ones are totally unusable by virtue of my off-key 'enthusiastic' singing that can be clearly heard - oops! Well, here is the first song of the night, played by Anthrax who had to go on right at 4pm before the stands filled or the sun even thought about going down.

I had such high hopes that there would be some public, on stage reunion with Dave Mustaine and Metallica. There may well have been such a thing at one of the other shows on this sort of 'tour' around the world, which I should research, but it certainly didn't happen last night. The most mention came when James of Metallica grudgingly said "our friends Megadeth are here...that's still weird to say" - thanks James, real big of you after 25 years. Even the big 'jam' at the end saw only Anthrax and part of Slayer join Metallica on stage - my dreams of seeing the Mustaine issue reach some closure were not to be.

Hopefully when you visit the Preserve, if you don't see a new post you should at least glance at the Twitter feed over on the top right - I'm not so good at it, but am trying to generate content via the new social mechanisms which are rapidly what the Internet is becoming. I'll be in NYC up until Sunday, so will do my best to keep things rolling here at the Preserve, but the best bet is to watch Twitter for some random thoughts and pics from around the city.